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"Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed."
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"Don't complain against life, it may hear you and double your suffering."

"The tendency to whining and complaining may be taken as the surest sign symptom of little souls and inferior intellects."

"Nowadays I get complaints about long drum solos, but in those days they wanted me to keep on going so they could go over to the bar and have a drink."

"If anyone comes to me complaining about others that "this person is like this, I will question that person first. 'Why did you come complaining to me?' You come complaining therefore you are the guilty one. If anyone comes complaining without being asked, then you should disregard him completely."

"The Indian knew how to live without wants, to suffer without complaint, and to die singing."

"Complaining is good for you as long as you're not complaining to the person you're complaining about."

"A man endures misfortune without complaint."

"I think the elections have gone well, although there is so much insecurity in Iraq. So far during the counting of ballots, there has not been a significant complaint. We have to wait to see what the outcome of the counting is."

"Two minutes later the right arm was pointing normally and the reaction to the left appeared. The patient made no complaint at all about the experiment."
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"[C]ourage is reckoned the greatest of all virtues; because, unless a man has that virtue, he has no security for preserving any other."


"When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best."


"(Adversity is) the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself being especially free from admirers then."


"I know not why any one but a schoolboy in his declamation should whine over the Commonwealth of Rome, which grew great only by the misery of the rest of mankind. The Romans, like others, as soon as they grew rich, grew corrupt; and in their corruption sold the lives and freedoms of themselves, and of one another."
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